Posted on 01/06/2018 2:20:56 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Coca-Cola will sell smaller bottles at higher prices in response to the sugar tax.
The soft drinks manufacturer has refused to alter its famous sugar-laden recipe.
But from March the cost of some bottles of the fizzy drink will rise by more than 10 per cent – before the new tax takes effect the following month. The plans mean that a 1.75 litre bottle of Coke will shrink to 1.5 litres, while increasing in price by 20p to £1.99.
The cost of a 500ml bottle will also rise from £1.09 to £1.25 – increasing by 25 per cent from just £1 last autumn, according to the Guardian.
A Coca-Cola spokesman said: ‘We have no plans to change the recipe of Coca-Cola Classic so it will be impacted by the Government’s soft drinks tax. People love the taste and have told us not to change.’
The move comes as rival Irn-Bru, manufactured by AG Barr, faces a backlash over reduced sugar in Scotland’s famous soft drink.
Next week they will begin bottling the adapted version of the product, which outsells both Pepsi and Coke north of the border. The tax will be introduced on all sugar-sweetened drinks from April.
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British Bloomberg Style Big Brother/Nanny State Alert. Truth be told, I thought Coca Cola altered their recipe ages ago and the only true version of it, made with cane sugar, was sold in Mexico. Maybe they meant to say they won't lower the percentage of the original recipe.
I like Mexican coke. Give me the cane!
This could get messy when the coke war begins
They still use sugar cane in most of Europe too. The reasons we call it Mexican coke here is the distro we get of it comes from mexico
Just how sacred is the recipe? American Coke has corn syrup. The rest of the world has cane sugar.
If you want to fatten livestock, you feed it corn, just sayin’...
In the UK, it’s probably derived from sugar beets, not cane.
Seattle is imposing a sugar tax on soft drinks. Now in effect distributors of all bottled and canned sodas, juice drinks, sports and energy drinks, flavored waters, sweetened teas and ready-to-drink coffee beverages sold in Seattle would pay a tax of 1.75 cents per ounce. It is one more way tax dollars are grabbed by the greedy Tax-o-cRATs.
I stand corrected.
Pay more, get less. It’s the government way.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’’
— CS Lewis
The new UK sugared drinks tax covers all sugars, not just cane sugar.
When I was very young, Coke was sold in reusable heavy green glass embossed bottles that needed a church key to open.
They were about 10 oz, the perfect size for a drink with a meal or to satiate thirst.
they were stored in wood returnable open crates.
We really did recycle.
Ah, I miss me the Irn-Bru. It’s great soda drink. Japan actually has the best variety of sweetened drinks though.
Sticker shock over Seattle’s new sugary drink tax
http://amp.kiro7.com/news/local/sticker-shock-over-seattles-new-sugary-drink-tax/677490924
Video shows a Costco price sheet
Coke Classic
35/12ozc
Costco Price $10.99
City of Seattle Sweetened Beverage Recovery Fee $7.35
$18.34
I quit drinking Stella Beer because they changed their serving size to 11.2 oz vs 12 oz.
“When I was very young, Coke was sold in reusable heavy green glass embossed bottles that needed a church key to open.
They were about 10 oz, the perfect size for a drink with a meal or to satiate thirst.
they were stored in wood returnable open crates.
We really did recycle.”
Damn! That means I’m almost as old as you! :)
I could tell ya stories.....
Ousted mayor Ed Murray, who proposed the tax, said the money would go to “programs that promote access to healthy food and help address education disparities between white and minority students.” I am thinking the money will go to feeding the Heroin-addled homeless population and children of addicted parents who use the money that would go to feed their children for their addictions.
We visited Seattle for a long weekend for a mileage run (wife made Gold Medallion status) about 10 years ago. It’s a really beautiful area, and we enjoyed sightseeing, but the homeless population was out of control then. We were advised not to walk the 1/2 mile or so back to the Waterfront Marriott from a very tony Belltown restaurant because of them. And they had pretty much taken over a pocket park immediately adjacent to Pike Place Market, which of course is a major tourist draw.
And BTW, I posted that as its own thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3619976/posts
And you don’t think that 1/4 to 1/2 of the money will go to politicians and their friends? How cute.
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